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The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], From the United States. (search)
charged with burglariously entering the dwelling-house of Mr. George Lee on the night of the 7th instant and stealing six thousand dollars' worth of wines, brandies, and other groceries. Eight or ten days after the robbery was committed, Mr. Lee, in company with offices Moore and Perrin, searched a room occupied jointly by the accused, and found in it a large number of jars, demijohns, jugs, decanters, &c., in three of which were wines and whiskey similar to what had been stolen. Colonel Waiter D. Blair, from whom Mr. Lee purchased his liquors, compared the wine found in these negroes' room with a decanter full which they failed to get, and pronounced it identically the same article. He said that it was part of a lot of very rich imported wine, which had been on hand ten or twelve years before the war; was brought here direct at great cost, and an article possessed by no one else at this time. Several other gentlemen had, he said, bought some of it from him, but as no one else ha